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Barudak posted:It remained the personal property of Han, who apparently according to TFA proceeded to lose it just as readily as he had gained it so its not like the owner gave a drat, and as far as ships go it was never super impressive compounded by fact that by the time of TFA is also 40-60 years out of date. It's a piece of junk. Yeah it's just a piece of junk. No one cares about it and it definitely does not have a famous history. Why did that young woman on TFA refer to it as "THE Millennium Falcon"? Weird.
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UmOk posted:Yeah it's just a piece of junk. No one cares about it and it definitely does not have a famous history. Why did that young woman on TFA refer to it as "THE Millennium Falcon"? Weird. On one hand, she's established as a fanboy. On the other, more pressing hand, just because on person cares about a historical artifact doesn't mean other people do. Like history is absolutely littered with individuals, sometimes the very same individuals who used the things in question, liquidating significant historical artifacts because the items themselves could be put to another, in their argument, better use. If anything, that's one of the flat-out most realistic bits of the film.
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Nov 17, 2016 04:52
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So is the Millenium Falcon a suped up Trabant or a pimped out Gremlin?
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The Falcon is just a freighter from Han's home planet, there's thousands more that were made just like it. Somebody wouldn't be able to tell that its THE Falcon just by seeing it sitting in a junkyard.
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dialhforhero posted:So is the Millenium Falcon a suped up Trabant or a pimped out Gremlin? Its an Edsel.
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There's apparently a new Star Wars book that reveals that the Rebellion was unsurprisingly started by Separatists who were upset at how the Empire treated them after the Clone Wars.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frz-TUdx3yA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtLCTrlh2lo
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New Russian poster in english:
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Does anyone have that "You truly belong here with us among the clouds" image comparison of Alderaan at the end of Revenge of the Sith handy?
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Oh man you could just shoot them the whole time? If only the team on Hoth had known.
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PostNouveau posted:Oh man you could just shoot them the whole time? If only the team on Hoth had known. They don't make 'em like they used to.
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Canemacar posted:Honestly, I would have liked it much better if C3PO had just been a protocol droid on Amedala's ship and Anakin had built R2-D2. Not to mention that R2 goes on to be Luke's good buddy whereas C3PO is just kind of there.
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PostNouveau posted:Oh man you could just shoot them the whole time? If only the team on Hoth had known. I'm sure there's some in-universe explanation. Luke says the armor is too strong for blasters in ESB, so either the ones on Hoth are up-armored, or the speeders' blasters are weaker than presumably turbolasers or something being used on these ones.
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They were also assaulting a base on Hoth, so they were presumably extra armored to deal with base defenses.
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The snowspeeders were barely functional in the extreme cold; I always got the impression that they were tossed together quickly and were never meant to hold off an attack force.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:I'm sure there's some in-universe explanation. Luke says the armor is too strong for blasters in ESB, so either the ones on Hoth are up-armored, or the speeders' blasters are weaker than presumably turbolasers or something being used on these ones. Maybe this is the battle that exposed the critical flaw that got patched by Hoth
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Maybe the snow made the lasers cold and weak.
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Zoran posted:They don't make 'em like they
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jivjov posted:The snowspeeders were barely functional in the extreme cold; I always got the impression that they were tossed together quickly and were never meant to hold off an attack force. Counterpoint: they are called snowspeeders.
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homullus posted:Counterpoint: they are called snowspeeders. Is that what they called them in the movie? Officially, they're called
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dialhforhero posted:So is the Millenium Falcon a suped up Trabant or a pimped out Gremlin? I always thought of it as a modified El Camino. Definitely not the kind of thing that would look out of place on blocks in a desert junkyard.
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The base on Hoth at X-Wings though didn't it? Luke's was there, at least. If they knew the snowspeeders weren't going to do the job why not use the X-Wings?
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Basebf555 posted:The base on Hoth at X-Wings though didn't it? Luke's was there, at least. If they knew the snowspeeders weren't going to do the job why not use the X-Wings? Well until Rogue One comes out, I'm going to assume that between episode 5 and 7 improvements to fighter technology allowed the x-wing to function in atmospheric conditions in a combat role.
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Basebf555 posted:The base on Hoth at X-Wings though didn't it? Luke's was there, at least. If they knew the snowspeeders weren't going to do the job why not use the X-Wings? The X-Wings were being used as escorts for the evacuating transports.
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thrawn527 posted:Is that what they called them in the movie? We call them snowspeeders because that's what the box said in 1980. 
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PostNouveau posted:Maybe this is the battle that exposed the critical flaw that got patched by Hoth Pretty much. Difference between this and the Death Star is that there was time for a team of welders to fix the problem. homullus posted:We call them snowspeeders because that's what the box said in 1980. That box is no longer canon.
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PostNouveau posted:Oh man you could just shoot them the whole time? If only the team on Hoth had known. I'm expecting the next edition of the Star Wars Technical manual to have a footnote explaining how the AT-AT design was reinforced after events of this movie. Because heaven forbid we just leave something like this alone.
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homullus posted:We call them snowspeeders because that's what the box said in 1980. Man, Kenner was such a giant deal until they just died.
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homullus posted:We call them snowspeeders because that's what the box said in 1980. Ah, good old canonicity of toys. 
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AlternateAccount posted:Man, Kenner was such a giant deal until they just died. Bought by Tonka then bought by Hasbro. The brand still exists but I think just for Star Wars stuff.
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PostNouveau posted:Oh man you could just shoot them the whole time? If only the team on Hoth had known. The weaker lasers on the snow speeders couldn't break their armour. A ion blaster could, but only star fighters tend to have those and all the rebel star fighters were assigned to escorting the transport ships. The rebels had already decided the base was a loss so the goal of the snow speeders was to delay the Empire, not stop them entirely.
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'Star Wars': Emilia Clarke Joins Han Solo Film
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I look forward to hearing her robotically read "I have a bad feeling about this" off cue cards, but with fantastic eyebrows. If we're lucky she'll speak an alien language the whole movie.
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PostNouveau posted:I look forward to hearing her robotically read "I have a bad feeling about this" off cue cards, but with fantastic eyebrows. Chewbacca's wife Mala returns to the screen at last! Perhaps the next announcement will be Peter Dinklage as Chewbacca's son Lumpy. All of both their lines are in unsubtitled Wookiee.
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Ah, so she got out of Meereen by fleeing to space. I see now.
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She's going to play a krayt wrangler and make her ride eat a few Hutts.
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If they were smart they'd force her to spend the entire film speaking Huttese. Say what you will but she is actually pretty convincing at acting while speaking made up gobbleygook on game of thrones.
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The last time I watched Empire Strikes Back, it struck me how pointless the soldiers in the trenches and manning the turrets were during Hoth. The visible Imperials were the AT-ATs (which could only be harmed by the snowspeeders tripping them) and a single AT-ST that only appears in one shot. I get the impression that the battle was supposed to be more like the one in Attack of the Clones, with tons of combined units and the infantry actually doing something other than futility shooting and retreating.
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Shiroc posted:The last time I watched Empire Strikes Back, it struck me how pointless the soldiers in the trenches and manning the turrets were during Hoth. The visible Imperials were the AT-ATs (which could only be harmed by the snowspeeders tripping them) and a single AT-ST that only appears in one shot. I get the impression that the battle was supposed to be more like the one in Attack of the Clones, with tons of combined units and the infantry actually doing something other than futility shooting and retreating.
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